Thoughts on Margot

[applepi3]

Is it too old fashioned?

[Catinthebath]

Re Edith, I have a young neighbour who is Edie, lovely make

[Catinthebath]

I have a friend who is Margaret and I call her Margot. Her husband who has passed on used to call her Marguerite in the broadest Yorkshire accent

[NebularNerd]

I really like it 😀

[user1492365675]

Beautiful name! Go for it.

[TroubledLitchen]

A reference to Despicable Me perhaps? The girls are called Edith, Margot and Agnes. Can’t say I would have thought of it myself though, in fact Edith and Margot were both on my list for DD. In the end we used neither but it would never have occurred to me not to put them together.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

I was wondering that, Buxbaum!

[Buxbaum]

Why would having an Edith preclude having a Margot?

[TheLastMermaid]

Just watched an old episode of the Durrells (can't remember what the prog was called, but based on 'My Family and other Animals') and the sister is called Margo. Without the final t.

Sorry if it's already been mentioned.

[Kittykatmacbill]

Love it, but I have an Edith! So it not for us...
Greta is nice though.

[user1499786242]

I think just because a name is popular on mumsnet does not reflect every area in the 'real world' it certainly doesn't where I live!
I've never ever come across a Margot in real life, adult or baby
I don't even know anyone who knows of a Margot!
It's still number 186 in the charts so I don't think it will ever be as popular as an evie or Ella for example!
Stunning name

[Mclaren37]

Love it. Our Margot is two. I haven’t come across any other small ones yet, but I hear (on here) that it’s on the rise. (The Penelope Keith reference is all positive in my mind. Her and Barbara were style icons!).

[TulipsInABlueVase]

Love it but it's very popular on here at the minute

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

I think Margaret may be better than Margot. What about Marguerite? There are so many other variants too: Margarita, Rita, Greta, Maggie, Mags, Meg, Meggie, Margery, Marjorie, Margie, Margo, Margot, Pearl. (The last one comes from the Greek meaning of the name.)

[MikeUniformMike]

Margarita is nice too. Margaret would have seemed a little old fashioned in the 60s but I know of a few born in around 1970.
Maggie is popular on MN.
Meg and Greta are nice too. Margot is probably way more popular than people realise. Something to do with a certain actress perhaps?

[pipilangstrumpf]

Margaret is much nicer than Margot, especially outside of France. Why choose a French name over an English one, do you love it so much more?

Or how about Margherita (Italian) or Margarete (German)?

[aRespectableBureaudeChange]

Margot - surprised to say I'm coming round to liking it.

Now long enough since "The Good Life", but you will get comments from over 50s commenting and maybe asking "where's Jerry"?

[HuskyMcClusky]

I actually prefer Margaret to Margot. A very niche view, I know!

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

You're in a tiny minority, MUM! I'm not that keen on it myself, to be honest. The associations with our erstwhile PM did it no favours for a long, long time, but it was already going out of fashion even in the 60s when I was born, especially in England. I'm Scottish and most of the women in my family in the generations above mine were Margaret, Elizabeth or Anne/Annie, with the odd Euphemia thrown in for good measure.

[mrsfuzzyboots]

Adeline I don’t dislike but don’t love it like Margot! Margo looks so so wrong to me but then again I’m part French so I don’t think I get an opinion there. You could go like Margaux Hemingway and spell it like the wine

[MikeUniformMike]

Are you a Margaret, Gasp? I think Margaret is a really nice name and suspect it is becoming very popular.

[pipilangstrumpf]

Outside of France I would also spell it Margo (assuming you want that pronunciation)

[pipilangstrumpf]

Adeline is like Sandrine

[MsHomeSlice]

Adeline is not nice....it is like Sandrine, a really pretty name for an industrial solvent. ;)

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

I would go for Margo because my blood pressure would suffer from (English-speaking) people pronouncing the final t, and I bet that does happen.

As names go, it's OK. I have a name not dissimilar to Margot, and it's already been trashed on this thread.

[SpringHen]

Love it!